Tracts on homoeopathy / by William Sharp.

  • William Sharp
Date:
1853-1854
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Credit: Tracts on homoeopathy / by William Sharp. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    then went to the sea-side for two or three weeks. During Tier stay there, her son wrote to mo that his mother was so well that she did not appear to ail any- thing. She has since suffered in various ways from mental causes, and has had som3 return of the diabetes, but it has again yielded to the same remedies. It may be said of this case that the tendency to the complaint is not removed. This is oranted ; but while the causes which first induced the complaint are, in all probability, still surrounding the patient, it is not susprising if they succeed in bringing on second or third attacks I have seen several cases of sugared urine formerly, but I never saw the old remedies afford such permanent benefit. Neither is it reasonable to expect that the new method will always succeed in such an untractable, and hitherto usually fatal disease. December 28th, 1852. I called to see this patient to-day, when she told me shy had not felt so well for many years as she did at present. It is now nearly, three years since I first saw her in the alarming condition I have described. October 14th, 1853. She has now continued well nearly another year. Tabes Mesenteric.*..—In September, 1852, Mrs. H consulted me about her baby, eight months old, suffering from mesenteric disease. The little infant was greatly emaciated, and its mother expected that it was going to die. Ex- cessively minute doses of Sulphur and Chalk were followed by a wonderful im- provement in a fortnight ; the medicines were repeated, and at the end of six weeks the child seemed nearly well—its stomach almost reduced to its natural dimensions, and its limbs filling up. Mrs. H had been at first quite incre- dulous, and came to me only through the persuasion of a friend ; she was now so m ich gratified that she thought it her duty to eali upon her former medical advisers, to shew them the child, and to offer a copy of one of my pamphlets. An angry scene ensued, and the following conversation took place :— I refuse to take the book; if Dr. Sharp said he was doing nothing we could respect him, bat as it is we cannot. Mrs H : But sir, my child is cured ! Yes, it has got well by letting medicine alone But I had tried what letting medicine alone would do for some time, and the child grew worse and worse. It began to improve from the very day Dr. Sharp's medicine was commenced ; and how was it that two other babies of mine died of the same disease in your hands 1 If medicines do harm, and yoa knew that doing nothing would cure, why did not you recommend that plan] Disease of the lungs.—Mr. W S , aged 20, had a severe attack of inflammation in the chest during last winter, and was attended by two or three medical men. This was followed by chronic disease during the spring and summer. His friends despaired of his recovery. When I saw him in September, 1852, he was emaciated ; had cough and expectoration ; his pulse 120 ; occasion- al flushings in the face; no appetite ; the whole of the right lung returned a dull sound on percussion, and there was a peculiar sound of the voice through the stethoscope. I made no alteration in his diet or habits, and gave him nothing but infini- tesimal doses of the medicines employed, such as Aconite, Bryonia, Phosphorus, &c. ; these have been continued three months; He declares that he feels quite well; he looks well ; his appetite is good ; he has gained flesh ; he takes horse exercise, notwithstanding the wet ; he has not the slightest cough nor expectora- tion ; no fever; no perspiration; and the only symptom which remains to testify the reality of his former danger is revealed by the stethoscope, the un- natural sound of the voice, though much diminished, has not yet ceased. Warts.—In three cases out of four I have succeeded in clearing the hand of ugly warts. In all by internal treatment alone, and with infinitesimal doses of the medicines employed. Partial Paralysis.—Mrs. M consulted me, three months ago, for paralysis of the thumb of the right hand, which had existed for some time. She had ontirely lost the use of it; for instance she could not take up a needle or hold it; she was otherwise ailing. The case reminded me of the condition of persons exposed to the poisonous influence of lead, as painters are. I prescribed the billionth of a grain of lead, in occasional doses for a month, and nothing else. At the expiration of the month, her husband, a respectable farmer, called to
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